Lead Engineer, Sr

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited in Bengaluru is seeking a Senior Lead Engineer to join the Audio Software team. You will contribute to development, integration, optimization, and support of next-generation audio solutions across Qualcomm platforms.

The role requires deep expertise in audio codecs, embedded DSP software development, and system-level debugging. You will drive feature development, performance, and customer issue resolution while collaborating across cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in embedded DSP and audio firmware development.
• Strong understanding of Bluetooth Audio technologies.
• Hands-on with ARM Cortex-M or equivalent DSP architectures.
• Experience profiling and optimizing embedded software.
• Excellent debugging and root-cause analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, integrate, and optimize audio codec and firmware for embedded DSP platforms.
• Own end-to-end development and support of audio features across Qualcomm products.
• Debug and resolve complex system-level issues in DSP firmware and audio frameworks.
• Drive performance, memory, latency, and power optimization efforts.
• Collaborate with Platform, Architecture, and Framework teams on new capabilities.

Skills

Audio Codecs

Audio Firmware

DSP

Embedded C/C++

ARM Cortex-M

HiFi DSP

Bluetooth Audio

LE Audio

LC3

AAC

SBC

CVSD

ANC

Embedded RTOS

System Debugging

Performance Optimization

Audio Frameworks

ML Audio Processing

Customer Support

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electronics, CS, EE, or related field

Master's degree in Engineering, CS, or related field

PhD in Engineering, CS, or related field

Tools

MATLAB

Python

Embedded tooling

Job description

Company

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary

Job Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Lead Engineer to join the Audio Software team in Bangalore. The candidate will play a key role in the development, integration, optimization, and support of next-generation audio solutions across Qualcomm platforms.

The role requires deep expertise in Audio Codecs, Audio Firmware, embedded DSP software development, and system-level debugging. The successful candidate will drive feature development, platform enablement, customer issue resolution, and performance optimization across voice and music use cases.

The position also requires collaboration across cross-functional teams including Platform, Audio Frameworks, Customer Engineering, System Testing, and Product teams. Experience in audio signal processing technologies such as ANC, voice enhancement, and emerging ML-based audio processing techniques will be a strong advantage.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, integrate, and optimize audio codec and firmware solutions for embedded DSP platforms.
• Own end-to-end development and support of audio features across multiple Qualcomm products and platforms.
• Debug and resolve complex system-level issues involving DSP firmware, audio frameworks, codecs, Bluetooth audio, and customer deployments.
• Drive performance optimization activities including MCPS, memory, latency, and power consumption improvements.
• Support customer engagements and provide technical leadership for issue investigation and resolution.
• Work closely with Platform, Architecture, and Framework teams to enable new audio capabilities.
• Contribute to audio subsystem design, architecture reviews, and technology roadmap discussions.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance across projects.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, design specifications, and validation plans.
• Contribute to innovation activities including patent submissions and next-generation audio technology exploration.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of industry experience in Embedded Software, DSP, or Audio System development.
• Expert-level C/C++ programming skills in embedded environments.
• Strong experience with Audio Codecs such as LC3, AAC, SBC, CVSD, aptX, MP3, FLAC, AMR, or similar.
• Extensive experience with Audio Firmware and DSP Framework development.
• Strong understanding of Bluetooth Audio technologies including Classic Audio and LE Audio.
• Hands‑on experience with ARM Cortex-M, HiFi DSP, or equivalent DSP architectures.
• Strong knowledge of RTOS concepts, interrupts, synchronization, memory management, and multicore systems.
• Exceptional debugging and root‑cause analysis skills for complex firmware and system issues.
• Experience profiling and optimizing embedded software for performance, memory, and power.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) technologies and audio enhancement algorithms.
• Exposure to ML‑based audio processing, speech enhancement, noise suppression, wake‑word detection or related frameworks.
• Experience with audio hardware interfaces such as I2S, PCM, PDM, and SPDIF.
• Familiarity with audio protocol stacks and wireless audio technologies.
• Experience supporting customer escalations and production deployments.
• Knowledge of MATLAB, Python and audio analysis/debugging tools.
• Prior experience working on Qualcomm, CSR or similar embedded DSP platforms.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• OR
  Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• OR
  PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Key Skills

• Audio Codecs
• Audio Firmware
• DSP
• Embedded C/C++
• ARM Cortex-M
• HiFi DSP
• Bluetooth Audio
• LE Audio
• LC3
• AAC
• SBC
• CVSD
• ANC
• Embedded RTOS
• System Debugging
• Performance Optimization
• Audio Frameworks
• ML Audio Processing
• Customer Support

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